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Is Ivory Coast at risk from extremist groups? artwork

Is Ivory Coast at risk from extremist groups?

Focus on Africa
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There are concerns that violent extremists are expanding their activities to northern Ivory Coast. A report by the Institute for Security Studies says that these groups have found ways to finance their activities, particularly along the border which West Africa's largest economy shares with Burkina Faso. A landmark case in Rivers State in southern Nigeria gives women the right to inherit property. What does this mean in practice? And the museum in the Netherlands which tells the story behind looted artefacts through the centuries.

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